Vaniver comments on LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 25 November 2012 12:39:32AM 22 points [-]

In general, what percentage of comments on LW would you expect to be posted by men?

Comment author: [deleted] 28 November 2012 12:37:37PM 0 points [-]

A whole bunch; so you are right, I could expect this result none-the-less. But if I were to bet, I would in general not bet on a woman posting a complainy comment on an article like this. Even to a smaller degree than just the "any given comment has more likely male author".

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